1993 story on the Hart Island Potter's Field.

"There’s two maps of New York overlapping here. The map of places that are somehow forgotten and beautifully mysterious, and the map of people that are forgotten."

One pixel per death, colored by category (US, civilian, "enemy"), in order.

My sadness is so very real. Goodbye, Studs.

Walter A. Netsch Jr. 1920 – 2008. Architect of UIC, Air Force Academy, Regenstein Library, Inland Steel Building.

April 4, 2008 – "Bernarr Dawson created Whitney Young Magnet High School from the ideals of the civil rights movement and his dream of what a school could become with the right direction."

Are various pro-life beliefs more consistent a belief abortion=murder, or a desire to punish sex? (The one 'no' in the right col should be a yes, reasons left as exercise to the reader)
via a mefi thread.

wisconsin death trip: "collection of late 19th C photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the town of Black River Falls. Emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, diseas

Kurt's up in Heaven now.

wtf??? first baudrillard, now this. At least comic deaths are temporary. actually mad about: just how horribly badly written superhero comix are.

fire, shipwrecks, riots, etc